Wrigley / Unknown / Wyver Screen plays

Theatre plays on British television
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1594-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Screen plays is a ground-breaking volume thatchronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and today. The collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to the past and present of British television drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Wrigley, Amanda

Wyver, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Fernsehproduktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver
1 Stages and the small screen: theatre plays as television drama since 1930 – John Wyver
2 A duchess, a shoemaker and a knight: early modern drama, early British television – Lisa Ward
3 ‘This genuine theatre condition’: Basil Dean and the 1938 BBC outside broadcast of J. B. Priestley’s When We Are Married – Victoria Lowe
4 ‘Our other Shakespeare’: Middleton’s tragedies on television, 1965–2009 – Susanne Greenhalgh
5 A revival, a reworking and an original: the Harold Pinter season on Theatre 625 (BBC2, 1967) – Amanda Wrigley and Billy Smart
6 Regional drama from stage to screen: television adaptations by Peter Cheeseman’s Victoria Theatre company – Lez Cooke
7 Granada Television’s experiment with The Stables Theatre Company, 1969–70 – John Wyver
8 From radical Black theatre production to television adaptation: Black Feet in the Show (BBC, 1974) – Sally Shaw
9 Cedric Messina: producing theatrical classics with a decorative aesthetic – Billy Smart
10 Abigail’s Party: ‘It’s not a question of ignorance, Laurence, it’s a question of taste’ – Ruth Adams
11 Screen and stage space in Beckett’s theatre plays on television – Jonathan Bignell
12 Television’s natural disposition? An analysis of Naturalism and performance in relation to BBC productions of Ibsen’s plays – Stephen Lacey
13 Remediating the real: verbatim plays on television in the new millennium – Cyrielle Garson
14 The impact of television on scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays – Neil Taylor
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Wrigley has held research posts on several AHRC-funded projects, including ‘Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television’ (University of Westminster) and ‘Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies’ (University of Reading).

John Wyver is Professor of the Arts on Screen at the University of Westminster. He is also Director, Screen Productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company and a writer and producer with the independent media company Illuminations.